Improvement in heel-stiffeners for boots and shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AND HOMER ROGERS, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEEL-STIFFENERS FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,556, dated November 11, 1873 application filed october 23, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN MOORE, of Sudbury, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in the Manufacture of Heel-Stili'- eners; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specication, is a description of my invention suftieient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

In the manufacture of heelstiii'eners or counters, it is now customary to use for stock, in their manufacture, leather-board, cutting the stock to shape, and then forming and crimping it by suitable molding and bending mechanism. Heel-stifieners `--thus made answer their purpose Well, but are more or less liable to become impaired by contact of moisture penetrating through the boot. To obviate this, I subject the stiifener, after having formed it to shape, to an enameling process, by which the outer surface (or both outer and inner surfaces) is so coated as not only to be impervious to moisture, but to be more enduring than if finished, as heretofore, by pressure alone. My invention consists in a heel-stili'- ener, which, being made of leather-board or similar material, shaped by pressure suitably applied, is finished by being outer-coated, or both outer and inner coated, by a water-proof laterally, and the edge being crimped, as seen in the drawing. The stiii'en er being then dried, is coated with any suitable enameling composition, such as is used in making enameled leather, this coating being preferably applied only on the outer siuface, and the coating or varnish having been suitably dried, the stiffener is finished ready for use.

I claimi A heel-stiiener formed of leather-board, or similar material, coated, substantially as described.

Executed this 26thday of September, A.D.

STEPHEN MooEE.

Witnesses FRANCIS GoULn, M. W. FEoTHnvG-HAM. 

